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What is true about assertion a and reason r?
Assertion a. The 'biological species' concept helps us to ask how species are formed.
Reason r. The concept of biological species focusses our attention on the question of how reproductive isolation comes about

A

If both the assertion and the reason are true and the reason is a correct explanation of the assertion

B

If both the assertion and reason are true but the reason is not a correct explanation of the assertion

C

If the assertion is true but the reason is false

D

If both the assertion and reason are false

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The biological species concept is the most widely accepted species concept it defines species in terms of interbreeding. For instance, Ernest Mayr defined a species as follows: “species are a group of interbreeding natural population that are reproductively isolated from another such group.
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